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Hi there,
I had a copy of XP Pro installed on my system, but my CPU utilization stayed at 100% under "System" (not System Idle Process). When the Kernel % is shown in Task Manager, nearly all of the CPU activity was for the kernel (approx 98% give or take a few %
To diagnose, I re-partitioned and formatted the hard drive and re-installed XP Pro, but the same issue occurred.
Out of desperation, I re-formatted and partitioned the drive again and installed Windows 98. Amazingly, the CPU cycles dropped to ~ 25%.
I then did an upgrade from 98 to XP Home. Immediately upon install, with no additional applications, I had 100% utilization again. I have updated all critical SPs and hotfixes.
What is going on?!
Thanks very much,
Sue
I had a copy of XP Pro installed on my system, but my CPU utilization stayed at 100% under "System" (not System Idle Process). When the Kernel % is shown in Task Manager, nearly all of the CPU activity was for the kernel (approx 98% give or take a few %
To diagnose, I re-partitioned and formatted the hard drive and re-installed XP Pro, but the same issue occurred.
Out of desperation, I re-formatted and partitioned the drive again and installed Windows 98. Amazingly, the CPU cycles dropped to ~ 25%.
I then did an upgrade from 98 to XP Home. Immediately upon install, with no additional applications, I had 100% utilization again. I have updated all critical SPs and hotfixes.
What is going on?!
Thanks very much,
Sue